iKanji - Learn Japanese Kanji Hack 2.2.3 + Redeem Codes

I found this app incredibly useful. My preferred method is to go through the pre-made sets of 20 each week, writing them out while I have the voice speak (at first I found it annoying that it also reads the vocal examples, but this is now my favorite part as I learn new words). I write the kanji in the app, then use a whiteboard, then make a flash card. I go back later add three kanji a day to the tested kanji. The kanji testing system is brilliant.

The only issues I’ve found so far is that the voice trips up any time there is a . in a kunyomi reading. It repeatedly pronounces the next syllable incorrectly. The other is that, despite testing the kanji for ‘one’, the app says I haven’t, but then will go back later and say that I have. Small thing that may just be a glitch on my end.

I bought this in a bundle pack with iKana and iKana Nōto. I love all three apps (I used iKana to tutor). I used iKana Nōto a lot more before I made the in-app writing purchase in this one, which may have been a waste of money but I don’t regret it. Turning your device on its side will give you more writing room which took me longer to figure out then it should have.

Overall, highly recommend and I wish they had a grammar app too. Don’t buy iKana Nōto if you plan on making the in-app writing purchase.

Probably the best kanji app to keep from getting bored that I’ve ever seen. However, the stroke order animation speeds up every time you move to the next kanji. 5 or 6 kanji in the animated stroke order is flashing so quickly that nothing can be learned from it. The old way of simply putting a picture with numbers beside each stroke would have been better. IOS 14.

I enjoy using this app. I think it's good for kanji recognition, not so much for being able to reproduce kanji on paper, but it definitely has improved my reading ability. One issue: some of the characters seem to be missing important readings, and I don't know why that is. The character 為 for instance does not include the reading 「ため」, which I would think is one of the most common readings? This app is otherwise so useful, it would be great if they could improve this issue.

This is my favorite kanji study app. Clean, easy to use and highly customizable, this has everything I need for study. The custom study lists also let me target study for specific textbooks which has saved me mountains of time.

I love this App. I have had it for over ten years and it is the best time killer. I use it to most to learn kanji characters and the stroke orders, as well as vocabulary. Great supplement to anyone looking to study Japanese.

I've come to depend on this app for a long while now. I love the structure of being able to review kanji at regular intervals.

I only wish it had a couple features
1 - During some sets of kanji I wish I could see my progress I've made in the group of kanji I'm studying through like a progress bar, a label that says 12 of 25 etc

2 - Use the standard iOS share sheet to export my training data to places other than Dropbox.

This app is so clear, clean, and stable, and the ability to tackle kanji by school grade level or JLPT level is wonderful. I’ve been using this app for months, and it’s proven to be a fun way to make progress in the never-ending study of kanji. That said, I see three areas for improvement, which I wouldn’t mind paying a decent amount of money for as add-ons to this app:

1) There is a bug where, as you progress through a set of kanji, the animation that demonstrates the stroke order and direction accelerates with each subsequent kanji character. This means that as you get toward the end of a set, a 15-stroke kanji’s animation is completed, start to finish, in less than one second. A blink of an eye, really. This is frustrating because the human eye simply can’t catch the order of so many strokes in a fraction of a second, and it should be a simple fix. (Note: This is not an added feature that I would pay for: The developer should fix this already, as it’s been this way for months.)

2) All of the on- and kun-yomi quizzes are multiple choice, which is kind of easy. It would be nice to see a text entry option to further challenge learners.

3) The final improvement, and the one I’d pay the most money for, is a free-form kanji drawing/writing option embedded in the “teach me these kanji” sets. Currently, the learner is given a “traceable,” gray-silhouette of the kanji to demonstrate stroke order and direction. This means that even though the learner is tasked with writing the kanji, they can already see the kanji and merely need to trace it, which is pretty weak and no demonstration of deeper learning or mastery in writing. I’d *love* a paid option to swap that out for just a big, blank box where I must draw the kanji from memory with no tracing or silhouette, as if I had to write the kanji on a blank piece of paper. Grading a handwritten kanji character for stroke order, stroke direction, accuracy, and legibility would be a challenge, but many apps already offer such an essential feature for learning hiragana and katakana. Moreover, years ago I had an app that did this for kanji character writing exceptionally well, but developer support for that app waned, and the app was eventually pulled.

All in all, I love this app and have been using it daily for about four months now, and my kanji proficiency is almost back to where it was when I had lived in Japan many years ago, but I hope the developer reads this to continue improving this app.

I love this app. But I wish it had the option of listening to how to pronounce the Kanji as well as the words / sentences that Kanji is used for. Because it does not have this VERY important feature I find it lacking.

App needs to be updated. The speak feature to hear the pronunciation of kanji no longer works.

Do not use this app for learning to write kanji. It uses a computer typeface even when teaching strokes, which leads to learning the wrong strokes because handwriting and typed fonts are different. One star, do not use, waste of money, bad app.